Copies, early 17th century, in French, of treaties drawn up between France and her various allies, 1606-1613.

File

Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.9

Scope and Contents

Also included are a number of instructions to ambassadors, commissions, and other related material.

There is a table of contents (folio 1).

French

0.00 Linear metres (iii + 211 folios. Quarto.)

Binding of 17th-century vellum, gilt-stamped with acorns and crowned roses.

The manuscript was part of the papers of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne (Denmilne number 56). It was bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1698.

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

For a manuscript in the same hand, containing similar material, some of which is duplicated here, see Adv.MS.33.3.4, folios 24-267.

For the texts of the treaties, see ‘Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens’ by Jean Dumont (Amsterdam, 1726-1731), volume v, part 2.

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